An early gift for
February 14
T
an acoustic shadow the shape of
echogenic arms
medical-grade plastic is.
loose
and wandering
white cross just bigger than a toonie.
floats
in a world of pink and pinker and fluid red
and.
The x-ray tech shoots film of my insides.
Says I can pay 5 dollars to download the snaps from home.
Save them to my personal PC to respond to any #sendnudes.
Lower torso minus clothes,
minus skin minus organs.
Just bones bones and a white
T
Autoreply to a dick pic.
Autoblock.
delete.
Rogue T bumps against bladder walls
digs pink divots
pinker.
Silvers a
snail trail of proges t rone behind.
Proges
t in
Levenoges
t erol.
Loveges
t eronal
Love
jes
t
own
all
softer le tt ers
sharp single T
dug its way through my uterus last Monday,
wiggled through walls and poked out the other side like an
earring pushed through a years-sealed hole.
T
Rattled my insides until I folded into
two
t il t ed
the in-training tech pressed
bladder kicking harder
stack your fists behind your back
(asked for extra help twice that twenty-three minutes)
of polite bracing against shaking legs
they’ll call with results and GPS coordinates
longitude/latitude of lost letters slipping behind my bowel
tilt
clamps pried pinheads into
straw widths
splitting the space behind
gut button
a butter knife under
fingernails two inches belly deep
They’ll need special tools to remove i T
tongs and sounds grabbing invisible strings
We’ll just yank it out (turn you inside out
borders of your body
aren’t
guts and medical grade plastic
T
tickling linoleum
Kate Hargreaves (photo
credit: EveryLittleWonder) is a book designer and writer who also works providing
writing support to university students in Windsor. Her books are Leak (Book*hug), Talking Derby (Black Moss), and Jammer
Star (forthcoming, Orca). She spends her free time playing roller derby, riding
bicycles and running an instagram account for her cat (@blackcatwinn). Find her
on Twitter @paineyre or at www.corusKate.com.
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